Loop slide buckle



Jan. 17, 1933; J, DOMKEE 1,894,856

LOOP SLIDE BUCKLE Filed NOV. 27, 1931 INVE Tljl k JEHN l-LDEJMKEE y @WW ATTY Patented Jan. 17, 1933 UETED STTES PATENT OFFICE JOHN H. DOMKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT LOOP SLIDE, BUCKLE Application filed November 2 7, 1931. Serial No. 577,462.

This invention relates to loop slide buckles adapted to adjustingly connect a strap to a button provided by a garment thereby to be supported.

The objects of the invention are to provide a loop slide buckle the slide buckle member of which is adapted to sufiiciently bight a single strand of strap threaded into the buckle to hold the same during a pulling strain thereon along the plane of the device in a direction opposite to that of an opposing strain upon the loop member; to provide a two member loop slide buckle of which the slide buckle member is made of sheet-metal and the loop member of wire; to provide, for separate or such combined use, a slide buckle member of such structure that a strap threaded therein is positively secured; and to provide such combined members with a looped connection adapted to maintain, under a pulling stress, the normally contracted condition of the loop member. With these and other objects in view, as may hereinafter appear from that which is herein pointed out and illustrated by the drawing, the structure as described may be modified to include that which is within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

To understand the character of the invention, reference is made to one illustrative device illustrated by the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is an upright face elevation of the device; and the Figure 2 is an edge w'ew of the device illustrating, in dotted lines, a strap threaded therein.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the device, bein preferably made in two parts, comprises the slide buckle and button loop members 1 and 2, respectively. The slide buckle member 1 is preferably made of sheet-metal, but may be made of wire if desired. In sheet-metal form the member 1 is stamped out in substantially rectangular form having the loops 3, 4 and 5, the metal from within the loops 3 and 5, instead of being wholly cut out therefrom, is bent out of the plane of the body portion of the member 1, such metal extending in opposite directions to provide the projections 6 and 7 at substantially right angles to each of the intermediate bars 8 and 9, respectively, formed by the cutting of the said loops 3, 4 and 5.

'VVhile each of the projections 6 and 7 is illustrated as having the continuous cut-metal Y edges 10 and 11, these cut-metal edges 10 and 11 may be scalloped or otherwise formed as illustrated and described in a previous application filed by your petitioner October 21,

1931, Serial Number 570,083. The bottom.

bar 12 of the member 1 is provided with the spaced depressions 13 and 14. The button loop member 2 is preferably made of wire, but may be stamped out as an integral part of the member 1. As made of wire, however, a middle portion of a piece of wire is bent to form the button-retaining loop 21 and the button-receiving loop 20 both axially associated and having between them the contracted throat portion 22, the remaining end portions of the wire being bent to partially form the suspension loop 23, and, to assemble the members 1 and 2, the looped extremities 24 and 25 of the button loop member 2 are made to loosely engage around the bottom bar 12 of the slide buckle member 1 at each of the spaced depressions 13 and 14, respectively.

In use, an end of the strap S is passed into the loop 3 from the rear of the slide buckle as illustrated, around the intermediate bar 8 and against its cut-metal edges 10 and 11, then into the loop 4 from the face of the slide buckle and around the intermediate bar 9 and against its cut-metal edges 10 and 11,

then the strap is passed into the loop 5 from the rear of the slide buckle and over the bottom bar 12, the end of the strap S being passed into the suspension loop 23 from the face of the slide buckle to repose behind the;

1, maintains the normally contracted condi-, tion of the throat portion 22 of the button loop member 2; for, upon the expansion of the throat portion 22, the looped extremities 5 24 and 25 have a tendency to ride up out of the depressions 13 and 14 but only to be returned therein by the resiliency of the button loop member 2 augmented by the opposing pulling stress placed upon the members 1 and 2 when supporting a garment.

I claim 1. A loop slide buckle, the combination of a substantially rectangular sheet-metal frame having spaced intermediate bars with cut- 15 metal edges. a cut-metal edged portion of each bar being bent perpendicularly to the lane of the frame, said bent portions projecting from said plane in opposite directions, one from the other, and a button loop axially associated with said frame in said plane.

2. A loop slide buckle comprising a substantially rectangular sheet-metal buckle frame having three axially associated loops in a common plane and divided by two intermediate bars with cut-metal edges, a cutmetal edged portion of each bar being bent perpendicularly to said plane and projecting in opposite directions one from the other,

3.0 and a button loop axially associated with the said frame in said lane.

3. A loop slide uckle comprising a substantially rectangular sheet-metal frame having to bottom and side bar portions and space intermediate bars with cut-metal edges, a cutrmetal ed ed portion of each intermediate bar being ent per endicnlarly to the plane of said frame an projecting in opposite directions one to the other, the bottom bar portion of said frame having spaced depressions around which the looped extremities of a wire button loop member pivotally engage.

JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

